Africa Renewal is a United Nations digital magazine that covers Africa’s economic, social and political developments. We cover the challenges the continent faces and the solutions to these by ...

IS and al-Qaeda's JNIM are both active in the Sahel region where they compete for power West Africa's Sahel region has become the latest scene of jihadist in-fighting, after Islamic State group ...

As Tuareg rock group Etran de l’Aïr release their new album, we take a look at their record label, the US-based Sahel Sounds ...

NATO's intervention in Libya in 2011 is considered one of the high points in the expansion of trafficking in the Sahel. Fighters from West and Central Africa ... many forms of physical and ...

For decades, Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso have faced instability, terrorism, poverty and resource exploitation. Despite expelling French troops post-coups, progress is slow. Eddy Micah Jr ...

In recent times, as the military knocked off one civilian regime after another across the Sahel, observers were disconcerted by the prospect of a region-wide capitulation to autocracy and the ...

Today, more than ever, we must turn our attention to pastoralism across the Sahel and West Africa. Stretching from Mauritania and Senegal on the Atlantic coast to the Nile Valley in Sudan, the Sahel ...

Our new report, Changing climate, changing realities: migration in the Sahel, looks at ways climate change is affecting people’s lives, with case studies from Mali and Sudan. In the Sahel region, ...

Minister of Foreign Affairs Badr Abdelatty reaffirmed Egypt's full support for Niger and Africa's Sahel region in combating terrorism, given the instability in the area due to the activities of ...

now known as Africa Corps, as a better alternative to French troops, promising they were capable of swiftly eliminating terrorist groups, bandits and jihadists in the Sahel. In their investigation ...

her work has earned her the nickname “Maman Sahélienne”, or “Mother of the Sahel”. Now, in recognition of her commitment to the education of displaced children in Burkina Faso, Maimouna has been named ...